TL20060227-01 "Brian Stelter Editor in Chief When Towson University officials talk about adding 1,100 students to campus next fall, raising enrollment from 18,000 to 19,100, they�re really talking about add-ing about 150 new class sections. The daunting scope of this scheduling task may be interpreted best through the perspective of English 102, Writing for a Liberal Education. It�s the only class at Towson that every undergraduate must pass. Bob Giordani, the registrar and associate vice presi-dent for academic affairs, is the �scheduling czar,� working with department chairs to make sure there are enough sections for students next fall. Giordani explained how administrators account for enrollment growth, using English 102 as an example. �The average freshman is taking 15 credits, and we�re adding 350 freshmen next fall. Half of them will take English 102 in the fall and half in the spring, but we typically have a few more sections in the fall than in the spring. So if 200 students take English 102 in the fall, and there are an average of 20 freshmen in each section, that means 10 more sections,� Giordani said. And don�t forget: �Of course, some of the transfer stu-dents could need English 102, too,� Giordani added. Every additional section of English 102 needs a pro-fessor, of course. Scheduling the sections and finding faculty members to teach them is the responsibility of English department Chair Edwin Duncan. �We have applied for, and I don�t know if we�re going to get, four full-time lecturers,� Duncan said. Each lecturer teaches four courses a semester, so hiring four would add 16 new sections. It sounds like a good solution, but hiring new professors also creates problems. �One of our problems is finding space for all the fac-ulty members we�re hiring. They have to have an office, they have to have a computer, and we don�t have the space right now,� Duncan said. Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly Monday, 2/27/06 INSIDE: This Week..........3 Perspectives......4 News................9 Beyond...........16 Arts.................19 Music..............20 Classifi eds.......22 Sports.............28 News: Deb Moriarty discusses modern college coed with League of Women Voters News: From boot camp to classroom, TU hosts college fair for servicemen, women COMING IN THURSDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: Black and white photographs retrace meaning of Civil Rights Movement Arts, page 19 Dancing the night away Photos by Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight TU searches for class space amid growth Admin. explores adding new class sections, hiring faculty to accomodate 1,100 new coeds www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Courtney Johnson Contributing Writer Students came in groups of as many as 12 and as few as two to dance the night away and raise money for the Johns Hopkins Children�s Center and the Children�s Miracle Network Friday in the University Union. As the event wound down at 11 a.m. Saturday, after 16 hours of dancing, weary students and volun-teers had raised more than $7,000, up from approximately $4,000 last year. TigerTHON kicked off at 7 p.m. Friday with participants gather-ing around dancers from the Black Student Union as they warmed up the dance floor with choreography to Chris Brown�s �Yo.� The night continued with bands like Fools and Horses and Purlington Drive, which kept the crowd moving with live original tunes and cover tracks. �We had 120 dancers and we had volunteers throughout the event, so we probably totaled close to 250 people,� TigerTHON co-chair Kristen Perry said. The dancers spent most of the evening and morning in the Potomac Lounge. The Patuxent was used as a gathering room for dancers and the Severn was turned into a VIP lounge for students who raised $50 or more to nap and regroup. TigerTHON included games like �Ride that Pony,� the �human knot,� and �musical dots.� Also, a few tables gave participants the opportunity to make arts and crafts to be donated to the Children�s Miracle Network. One of the night�s highlights was the hourly musical montage that was accompanied by well-known songs like �Eye of the Tiger,� �Peanut Butter Jelly Time,� and �Push It.� Towson performers, including a beat boxer, break-dancers and the TU Pom Squad showcased their talent during the event. See UNIVERSITY, page 13 TIGERTHON View a TigerTHON slideshow at http://www.thetowerlight.com/pages/tigerthon/ �23,000 by 2010?� Will Towson be able to teach its goal of 23,000 students by 2010? See the outlook on page 17 Testudo and Doc battle for the ball in front of a record-breaking 1,004 student fans at Saturday�s basketball game Sports, page 28 "
